Penmanship class at Bancroft Elementary School

Students are sitting at wooden desks writing while a teacher watches over them in this 9-3/8" x 7-1/2" black and white photograph. There are blackboards on two sides of the walls with pictures hanging on them. There are also framed pictures above the blackboards.

Bancroft School was Lincoln's first modern elementary school building. At the time of this photograph, the school was located at 1420 U Street, where it operated from 1916 to 1964. Previously, the school had been located at 9th & T Streets, from 1881 to 1915. Because of its location on the university campus, Bancroft also served as a laboratory school.